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From what I've heard only the first few levels are a parody of modern shooters, no?

The entire game is brown, but the levels open way up after the first two (which I didn't think were particularly horrible, even.) I enjoyed it for what it was: an excellent way to kill off a bottle of whiskey and a rainy day.

After Level 5 or so, it turns into regular Serious Sam gameplay. There is even a moment where Sam says something to the tune of "I'm home!" (I don't remember the exact joke) which signifies the end of the modern shooter joke.

Yeah, it gets really good after about an hour in. The problem with the modern shooter joke is that it isn't really a very good joke so you just end up wasting time until it gets all Serious Sam. And it does.

I loved going back to complete don't give a monkeys maps where you can clearly see where the arena begins and ends. And the giant sandworm that will eat you if you go outside it.

The last level is pretty terrible though. Probably hilarious to write and well into the realms of "how far is too far? this far!" but I just couldn't be arsed gritting my teeth through the gauntlet it lays down. But a pair of minor gripes for hours of solid, smiley shooty bang bang that I truly enjoyed loads.

Just as a heads-up: it seems payment for this game with PayPal is disabled, so you'll have to do so with a credit card. This probably won't be a problem for most people, though.

This is true - especially the bit about 'credit' card, because GetGames appear to be one of those companies who are blocked by many of the main banks for debit card transactions (see also pcworlddownloads.co.uk and a few other sites).

Worse still is they'll take your card details, send you a confirmation email but nothing else. No warning there's been a problem, nothing (definately not a game).

I've bought 3 things from GGG, 2 of those resulted in having to talk to their support people to actually find out what the hell was going on - won't bother again...

Contemplating getting Dear Esther, which is half off on Steam. Reading through the corresponding Steam forum is hilarious. For people here who've played it, what did you think? I'm well aware of the length and type of gameplay, and they don't necessarily deter me if the game can successfully do what it was trying to do (which is the story, I suppose).

Tbh I found Dear Esther fairly tedious. In terms of source mods telling a story, Stanley Parable did it better. I'm possibly missing something but I really couldn't find a single useful thing about it.

I'll put it this way: I enjoyed the path, but not so sure I enjoyed Dear Esther, and kind of regret purchasing it.
The cave looks gorgeous though, they've taken the Source engine to it's extreme in that section of the game.

Tbh I found Dear Esther fairly tedious. In terms of source mods telling a story, Stanley Parable did it better. I'm possibly missing something but I really couldn't find a single useful thing about it.

Avernum 6 still features the best boss-battles and set-pieces not only of any of the Spiderweb's series, but of nearly any RPG I can think of. If you liked Avadon, you owe it to yourself to play the far superiour Avernum 6. Especially as it doesn't cost anything.

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